c. 1758
24.3 x 16.5 cm (9 9/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, by descent?; to his heirs. Georges Huot, his great-grandson, sold; to George S. Hellman, New York, sold [through Kende Galleries, New York, April 10, 1952, lot 75]. Ira Spanierman. Martin Reymert and Gerald Norman, New York and London, sold; to Fogg Art Musuem, 1968
Brown ink and graphite on cream antique laid paper.
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and gray wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, adhered on a decorated mount
18th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove card
18th-19th centuryFrenchVerso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBlack ink, brown and gray wash, and white gouache over red chalk on cream antique laid paper, pricked for transfer around oval framing lines in black ink
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and graphite with guidelines in red chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchPastel on paper, wrapped around and adhered to canvas
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink, black chalk, and graphite with guidelines in graphite on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchVernet: Brown in on off-white modern laid paper. The acidic ink has eated into the paper (17.7 cm x 11.3 cm). Pujol: Brown ink on white wove paper laid down to the sheet with the Vernet caricature (5 cm x 6.2 cm).
18th-19th centuryFrench